Atrocities

Sandakan

 

Compiled from the ‘Java Index’, ‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’

and the Commonwealth War Graves

 

This Page Is Dedicated To

 

VX32307

Corporal

Garland, Alan William

 

Australian

Australian Army Medical Corps

A.I.F. 2/9 Fd. Amb.

 

Japanese POW

POW Number:

1527

Force:

E - left Singapore 28th March 1943, arrived Kuching 1st April. Some senior officers and OR's stay, the rest sent to Sandakan.

Survived/Died:

Died

Age:

40

Date of Death:

1945/03/18

Place of Death:

Paginatan

Buried:

Paginatan Cemetery

 

Loved Ones

Son of Henry and Harriett Garland; husband of Lorna Garland, of Glenelg, South Australia

 

Memorial

Panel 25.

LABUAN MEMORIAL

 

1st Sandakan march (9 groups leaving Sandakan between 29th January and the 6th February 1945). Japanese recorded death from Malaria.

 

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“Keeping the Candle Burning”

 

 

 

Britain at War

Acknowledgements:-

‘Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence’ by Lynette Ramsay Silver

‘The Last March’ by Don Wall

‘Kill the Prisoners’ by Don Wall

‘The Knights of Bushido’ by Lord Russell of Liverpool

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Java Index - Roll of Honour

KEW

 

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